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13 people built something like it. 3 are gone.
That is 38% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 5 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | YCGitPrime Visibility and analytics for software development leaders. · gitprime.com | acquired |
| 2013-01-01 | YCScuba Analytics for impatient people. · scuba.io | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSecoda Secoda is the AI layer for your Analytics · secoda.co | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Automated QA for your Digital Analytics · trackingplan.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSarus Use personal data for analytics and ML, safely and seamlessly · sarus.tech | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCHaystack Delivery Analytics for Software Teams · usehaystack.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHydra Serverless Analytics on Postgres · hydra.so | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | YCVoker The Agent Analytics Platform · voker.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCWhaly Whaly is building a self-service analytics platform · whaly.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Confidently ship analytics code faster with fewer errors · ilumadata.io | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | YCQuary The first in-browser analytics engineering platform · quary.dev | gone |
| 2008-06-01 | YCBackType BackType was an analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011 · backtype.com | acquired |
| 2008-06-01 | YCCO2Stats Social and environmental web analytics. Acquired in December 2016. · co2stats.com | gone |
How this compares
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.